Placements in Primary Care

General Practice is particularly suited to supporting the development of healthcare students due to the wide range of learning opportunities and types of patient contact that take place in this clinical setting. It is also a great setting to support the development of staff and provide opportunities to upskill through many programmes.

What are the benefits to having a student in placement?

There are many varied benefits to having a student within your practice or PCN including:

Promoting primary care as the career of choice
Help to improve retention of existing staff
Hosting students impacts positively on the whole team with an increase in critical thinking for all staff
Addition of learners to the practice team brings in diversity and differing skills sets
Enables smaller practices to have a role in workforce development and education
Opportunity to share students with neighbouring practices to support placement capacity and mentor/supervision requirements
Gives other roles the opportunity to be part of the teaching, raising their profile as educators
Provide additional resource
Income from the placement tariff or additional funding payable to the practice

Practices Form for Student Placements

Click here and complete the short form to register your interest in taking on a student placement in your practice or PCN.

What are the benefits to supervisors/mentors?

There are also many benefits to the wider team to support students in placements by:

The chance to share best practice, knowledge and skill sets
Upskilling to support their professional development
Development of management and leadership skills
Empowering and personally developing the wider team as teaching and mentoring is a valuable experience

Coaching and mentoring is a key professional development tool used in leadership development, and to support the primary care workforce to grow and develop. If you are interested in becoming a coach or mentor, read more about the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Coaching & Mentoring Training Programme here.

Find Supervision training from E-learning for Health

Students

The Training Hub supports students and HEIs within the region to allocate placements and also arranges shadowing opportunities in Primary Care.

Student Form for Placements in Primary Care

Click here and fill in the form if you are interested in a student placement.

An overview of placement opportunities

There are many opportunities to take placements in your practice or PCN, please click the documents below to find out more information about which role placements you can support from Undergraduates to Postgraduates. (*please note these documents will be regularly updated with new information.)